Apache Thrift ™

How to contribute

  1. Make sure your issue is not all ready in the Jira issue tracker
  2. If not, create a ticket describing the change you’re proposing in the issue tracker
  3. Check out the latest version of the source code
    • git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift.git thrift
  4. Modify the source to include the improvement/bugfix
    • Verify that you follow the same CodingStyle you see within the language you are working on
    • Verify that your change works by adding a unit test.
  5. Create a patch from project root directory (e.g. you@dev:~/thrift $ ):
    • git diff > ../thrift-XXX-my-new-feature.patch
  6. Attach the newly generated patch to the issue
  7. Wait for other developers or committers to review it and hopefully +1 the ticket
  8. Wait for a committer to commit it.

More info

Plenty of information on why and how to contribute is available on the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) web site. In particular, we recommend the following: